Ação do curcumin sobre os períodos iniciais da carcinogênese bucal induzida por 4-NQO em modelo murino

• Autor(a) principal: Gonçalves, Vinícius de Paiva [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/113929
• topic: Rato; Lingua; Marcadores biologicos de tumor; Rats

Curcumin has therapeutic potential in the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases , including cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of systemic treatment of curcumin on the initial periods of oral carcinogenesis induced by 4 - NQO in rats. Forty rats were distributed into four groups (n = 10) and treated with 50 ppm of 4-NQO solution dissolved in the drinking water ad libitum throughout the experimental period, which occurred at 8 and 12 weeks , with two of these groups were treated with 30 or 100 mg / kg body weight daily by oral gavage curcumin, and a group treated with vehicle corresponding to larger dose of curcumin volume. The animals in the negative control group (n = 10 ) were sacrificed at the beginning of the experiment. Histological sections, from the language of animals, were stained with H&E or subjected to immunohistochemical analysis for detection of PCNA, Bcl-2, SOCS1 and -3, and STAT3. Part of the pieces was used to check the expression of vimentin, Cdh1, Cdh2 and TWIST by RT - qPCR . Treatment with 100mg/kg body weight of curcumin for 12 weeks, mainly, decreased the values of the H -score of PCNA, Bcl-2, SOCS3, STAT3 , while increased SOCS1 , and reduce cellular atypia observed in the morphological analysis of lingual epithelium. The gene expression assessed by RT- qPCR was also reduced by treatment with curcumin, regardless of the dose used. The results of this study demonstrate that curcumin eventually intervene and attenuate the development of the carcinogenic process.